Traditional Heavy Metal thunderstorm with BÖLLVERK!

BÖLLVERK
Band 2022 • 📸 Franzi Zahn

LINE-UP:
Svenja • Vocals
Zahn • Guitar, Vocals
Raphi • Guitar
Tim • Bass
Angelo • Drums

When the three friends Raphi (guitar), Zahn (vocals, guitar) and Markus (drums) formed the band BÖLLVERK in May 2018, this fortunate circumstance marked the initial spark for a quite enormous revitalization of the German Heavy Metal guild!

The three playful enthusiasts quickly wrote their first own songs, and the common favourite direction crystallised out very quickly: core-traditional and above all fundamentally honest HEAVY METAL with a damn iconic 80s touch!

From September 2018, bass player Sense completed the line-up. The very first live shows were played and received great feedback from the audience.

With this momentum, BÖLLVERK entered the studio in autumn 2019 to record the first demo “Let’s Ride Till Dawn“. It was released on March 6, 2020 and received good reviews from the press and fans.
Unfortunately, due to the lockdown at the time, the CD could not be promoted on the stages. During the worldwide misery of the global pandemic, however, BÖLLVERK by no means stood still.

Personnel changes were also managed with determination, whereby the stylistic directness always remained completely the same. The BÖLLVERK rhythm section was re-staffed with Angelo (drums) and Tim on bass.

And Svenja as a promising new singer raises the solid musical foundation to an even higher level with her enormously powerful and distinctive voice.

Artwork • “Heading For The Crown“ 🎨 Basti Kraus ▶ 🗓️ Official release: April 22, 2022 ◀ [ Label: Independent ]

TRACKLIST: 01. Ask The Angel, Listen To The Devil (06:05) 02. Let’s Ride Till Dawn (03:27) 03. Good Morning Rock’n’Roll (04:25) 04. Heading For The Crown (04:49) 05. The 7th No (IS A KO) (04:37) 06. Master Of Thunder (06:26) 07. Live Fast (04:20) 08. Next Level Of Service (03:56) 09. Someday We Will Die (05:50)total: 44:07 min.

With this new line-up, the fantastic debut album “Heading For The Crown” was recorded.
The experienced Rolf Munkes is responsible for the crisp and deliciously kicking overall sound with his Empire Studio, who is also known in the scene as the axeman of Crematory.

The old school-addicted battlevest banger fraction can expect refreshingly pure, wonderfully powerful and teutonically forged Heavy Metal material in the gloriously timeless style of early Accept, Warlock & Running Wild!

NEW VIDEO RELEASE !!!! Gentihaa’s brand new video ‘’Beyond’’

Stretching their music and performing skills, Gentihaa are preparing their new album, with the promise of an absolutely massive and overwhelming outcome, which, according to the band’s lead guitarist, Valgran (George Giannopoulos), is leaving Entropy far behind. The album concept, which is once more in Andre Boutos’ hands, as well as the number of songs, is a guarded secret. The album is currently being recorded to Bob Katsionis’ brand-new studio, Sound Symmetry Studio.

While recording their new album, Gentihaa giving us a warning strike, by releasing a new video from Reverse Entropy, “Beyond”. Loud, impressive and unforeseen, with sounds that pass through anything static and usual, ‘’Beyond’’ comes to impose its dynamic and energy. The video premiered at February 13^th via YouTube and it will be a music bridge between the two albums of the band.

Official links

https://gentihaa.bandcamp.com/album/reverse-entropy

https://www.facebook.com/gentihaa

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaUAcnyTmSNdnHNVcVu9TQ

FACELESS ENTITY premiere new track at DEAF FOREVER’s website!

At present, ARGENTO RECORDS and THE THROAT are enraptured to announce the brand new second full-length ‘THE GREAT ANGUISH OF RAPTURE’ by FACELESS ENTITY from The Netherlands!!  

A release date is set for April 15th, 2022 and shall come in the following formats:
DIGITAL / MC / LP  

A second track, “THE ENIGMA OF DEATH” can now be heard on the website of one of Germany’s finest printed magazines DEAF FOREVER:

https://www.deaf-forever.de/songpremiere-faceless-entity

The Enigma of Death:

“Further down the insanity, we grasp at the meaning of death. If death is our shadow, our pale companion, how can it end us, the living? Where does life end, and death begin? The Enigma of Death is a constant spiral into the maelstrom of existential dread, expressed through a haunting melody that never seems to let us go. As it invites us to contemplate, it rests in cosmic havoc. After this distraction, it returns with the same intensity as it appeared before. It has no beginning, and no end.”

Emerging from the grand nameless void, Faceless Entity established a reputation since its inception in 2014 through the release of four demos. Their first full-length, ‘In Via Ad Nusquam’ (On the Road to Nowhere), was a pursuit deeply rooted in a boundless dissonant sound that captures the metaphysical axioms of previous creations, further refining their overall arrangements. Their encounters with the void are expressed in shadowy wails and clamors of sadistic delirium, culminating in a curse of demented, unhinged Black Metal. Ultimately ritualistic in substance, untamed in praxis, the abyss takes form and onward emanates the wisdom of the dead. Their aim is to continue this sinister path in a soon to be unleashed follow-up to the first full length through Argento Records.

Contemplate life and death. Give in to the fear of the unknown and let that fear wreak mental havoc on your psyche. Breathe in slow; your imminent demise is just around the corner. Let us mourn for you. Forever mourning the dead and the living…

A growing Void…

Over the last decade, few entities have subjected the feeble human to such a plethora of dreadful expressions turned into audial flesh like Faceless Entity. Almost five years after ‘In Via Ad Nusquam’, the journey towards nothingness whispers a new conjuration, a cold catacomb of Death and misery over five brooding tomes.

From the very first moments of ‘The Great Anguish of Rapture’, a slice of torturous riffing breaks the eerie silence, a miasma of sonic despair alongside a pulse of funereal drumming lurking as an aghast corpse creeping its polluted body in dread and disgust. As a cold fog of electrical guitar ecstasy sweeps through the blinding mist, the screams of the dead are manifested by a deluge of demented wails slashing like rusty bloody razors. The air gets gradually filled with a density and shivering oppression, the impending Death growing in strength and might into physical form, haunting our very core as we face the Void in horror and wonder. A trance-like state is induced by the long blistering mantras, recreating the anguish of the uttermost ghastly abyss, ever dynamic, ever rapturing, as Faceless Entity reaches the zenith of its haunting existence with supreme songwriting and the highest bent to evoke absolute terror with the most enticing and befitting sonic quality the band as captured to date.

As these forty minutes of sinister, ominous Black Metal reach its conclusion, we are left in awe and crazed delight with the crushing witnessing of our rotting existence. Through this, the mourning of the dead and the living continues…

To be unleashed by Argento Records on Vinyl & CD, and by The Throat on Cassette

 

Text by Mário Souto

Pre-order links:

https://thethroat.nl/product/keel187-faceless-entity-the-great-anguish-of-rapture/?fbclid=IwAR2SozvhlL8y4emlKZj0r0_wc3GgmcW9tj85gz5kVoSzBr-WMP0iIs8XtCM

https://wolvesofhades.myshopify.com/search?q=Faceless%20entity&type=product&fbclid=IwAR0fIZLT-7aoSsRXbR7HS3QPVOVuokfz4T1vyReLi6OZ4kTqjc5hyB4IyBsTracklist:

1. The Great Anguish of Rapture (9:57)
2. Decaying Banners of Existence (8:23)
3. The Enigma of Death (6:57)
4. A Growing Void (6:52)
5. Death, a Rot Beneath the Mask of Existence (8:31)
Total (41:07)
 

Line-up:
 R.v.R. – guitar, vocals
K.v.H. – bass, vocals
B.D. – drums


Discography:
Demented Incantations (Demo / The Throat 2014)
Faceless Entity (Demo / Black Gangrene Productions 2014)
Semper Dolens (Demo / The Throat 2015)
Imminence (Demo / The Throat 2015)
In Via Ad Nusquam (Full-length / Nebular Carcoma Records & Altare Productions 2017)

Links:

Argento Records bandcamp

Faceless Entity bandcamp 

The Throat